Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 2001, 8:37 PM CDT for Morrison County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2001, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Morrison County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Cushing, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4439 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 180139 TORMSP MNC097-180200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 837 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MORRISON COUNTY IN MINNESOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 837 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES NORTH OF RANDALL...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF LITTLE FALLS...MOVING, SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... RANDALL. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! LAT...LON 4625 9465 4607 9458 4604 9432 4631 9442
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 40 min |
| Jul 17, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Mille Lacs | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 49 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.